nano

Install command: 
brew install nano

Free (GNU) replacement for the Pico text editor

https://www.nano-editor.org/

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/nano.json

Formula code: nano.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 9.3
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

ncurses 6.6 Text-based UI library
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Binaries: nano, rnano

A sample configuration file is available at
    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share/doc/nano/sample.nanorc

See `man nanorc` for more information.

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days25,983
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